Bereft

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. A past tense and a past participle of bereave.
  • adj. Deprived of something: They are bereft of their dignity.
  • adj. Lacking something needed or expected: "Today's graduates seem keenly aware that the future is bereft of conventional expectations” ( Bruce Weber).
  • adj. Suffering the death of a loved one; bereaved: the bereft parents.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. Simple past tense and past participle of bereave.
  • v. To deprive.
  • adj. pained by the loss of someone
  • adj. deprived of, lacking, stripped of, robbed of
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • imp. & p. p. of bereave.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Preterit and past participle of bereave.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. unhappy in love; suffering from unrequited love
  • adj. sorrowful through loss or deprivation
  • Equivalent
    unloved    sorrowful   
    Variant
    bereave   
    Verb Stem
    bereave   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    antitheft    cleft    deft    heft    left    theft